Banned
I think its a viable question to ask, based on how quickly the gentlemans thread on how he got banned from the shave nook for doing actually,,, nothing, got shut down to snipping and sniveling from TSN fan boys.
The forums get touted as being helpful wonderful places, but the DE forums I have been on, and kicked off of, use business practices that make used car salesmen look honest. So the question of the practice of forums hushing any open discussion of what goes on behind the scenes should be stopped. Not as a way to make a particular forum or blog look good, but to show people what goes on in an attempt to improve the forums.
I have been banned on the English speaking DE websites. Some of them several times. I will give a quick blow down of why for each site, for each time.
Badger and Blade
First time I was banned, after posting 1400-1800 posts and threads, I complained to a moderator that a vender who payed to be a forum steward was editing my posts and other posts about shaving soap. The person in question would post about how great one of his soaps smelled, and if you posted for example:
"Yeah I tried it, its great if you don't mind a soap that makes a brand new stainless steel razor and razor blade rust over night"
would be changed to "Yeah I tried it and its great" and you would be blocked from editing the post and you would also be locked out of replying to that thread again.
Then a payed vender with a website asked for a critique of their website, and I got kicked off because I pointed out a serious issue in their search function, and was banned for "criticizing a paying vender member"
Second time I was kicked off, I mysteriously got banned 10 hours after I posted a POSITIVE shaving review of Williams Mug Soap and Erasmic in the red box. SO "contrary to the nature of the forum" to post GOOD POSITIVE reviews of these two soaps on a shaving forum.
I was also banned because I tried to do a trade sub forum post in order to get rid of some of my razors, and I was banned for "not following the rules" because I did not know or think that the rule of "all modern/current production items for sale or trade requires at least 3 links to non active ebay or similar auction site ads for similar item to show a price of similar condition items" applied to VINTAGE items the sub forum rules said "do not need pricing links". Hence a quick ban for not following sub forum rules "pursuant to pricing policies".
Then the latest time I have been banned from badger was this week. I failed to respond in a "timely manner" to a message from a moderator.
The Shave Nook
First time, it was for being "mean and spreading bad information about vendors" when I talked a famed vendor member about an unscented soap they make on request, and was sent a reply that put in clear words "they couldn't do so until their next shipment of soap base came in". I went public with that, and was given a stern warning on pissing off payed vendor members, Then during a fun thread I called the "melt and pour scandal", I reminded a moderator in public that if he was going to rail off against the use of melt and pour glycerin soaps like col conk and VDH, that he would have to rail against the usage of his favorite melt and pour soap from Mama Bear.
I was banned ten minutes later, "disinformation" can be caused by explaining information found on a vendors website.
Second time I was knocked off of their site, it was because I replied to a post by a guy who was curious about why when ever bullgoose shaving had stuff on sale, suddenly those products would suddenly go from being called "bad" to instantly being the greatest things around for shaving, by people who had spent the last 3 years complaining against those products.
I merely pointed out that at the same time, all posts and threads that were negative of those items on sale, instantly became deleted or locked down, or heavily edited.
The Shave Den
First time I was booted off, I disagreed with a moderator on the proper way to hold a razor. The genius felt you could only hold it one way, so after a frustrating period of having every thread and post I made disappear I was informed I had to have external links to information that proved what I said was true. As a result I was banned for "excessive promotion of external sites"
Second time, I saw a thread promoting a sharpologist article on the history of Gillette toggles. I said he was missing the more important ones that predate the adjustment feature, he had no idea about those, even the Gillette archive people didn't. SO I gave some good patent numbers.
Strangely I was banned for "rules violations". Ironically there is no rule against providing information.
Shave my Face,
I was banned because I have been working on designed an adjustable razor of my own. And the only moderator felt the site should only discuss vintage or current production items.
The Shaving Room
After 2000 posts and threads I was banned because I complained that people who disagreed with me on a subject were posting photographs of naked men, men masturbating on a couch, and a photo of 30 naked men going to the bathroom at the same time. Apparently that was appropriate content to post on a shaving forum, but asking in public, after no moderator response to private message, to take that crap down, was "violation of forum rules"
The forums get touted as being helpful wonderful places, but the DE forums I have been on, and kicked off of, use business practices that make used car salesmen look honest. So the question of the practice of forums hushing any open discussion of what goes on behind the scenes should be stopped. Not as a way to make a particular forum or blog look good, but to show people what goes on in an attempt to improve the forums.
I have been banned on the English speaking DE websites. Some of them several times. I will give a quick blow down of why for each site, for each time.
Badger and Blade
First time I was banned, after posting 1400-1800 posts and threads, I complained to a moderator that a vender who payed to be a forum steward was editing my posts and other posts about shaving soap. The person in question would post about how great one of his soaps smelled, and if you posted for example:
"Yeah I tried it, its great if you don't mind a soap that makes a brand new stainless steel razor and razor blade rust over night"
would be changed to "Yeah I tried it and its great" and you would be blocked from editing the post and you would also be locked out of replying to that thread again.
Then a payed vender with a website asked for a critique of their website, and I got kicked off because I pointed out a serious issue in their search function, and was banned for "criticizing a paying vender member"
Second time I was kicked off, I mysteriously got banned 10 hours after I posted a POSITIVE shaving review of Williams Mug Soap and Erasmic in the red box. SO "contrary to the nature of the forum" to post GOOD POSITIVE reviews of these two soaps on a shaving forum.
I was also banned because I tried to do a trade sub forum post in order to get rid of some of my razors, and I was banned for "not following the rules" because I did not know or think that the rule of "all modern/current production items for sale or trade requires at least 3 links to non active ebay or similar auction site ads for similar item to show a price of similar condition items" applied to VINTAGE items the sub forum rules said "do not need pricing links". Hence a quick ban for not following sub forum rules "pursuant to pricing policies".
Then the latest time I have been banned from badger was this week. I failed to respond in a "timely manner" to a message from a moderator.
The Shave Nook
First time, it was for being "mean and spreading bad information about vendors" when I talked a famed vendor member about an unscented soap they make on request, and was sent a reply that put in clear words "they couldn't do so until their next shipment of soap base came in". I went public with that, and was given a stern warning on pissing off payed vendor members, Then during a fun thread I called the "melt and pour scandal", I reminded a moderator in public that if he was going to rail off against the use of melt and pour glycerin soaps like col conk and VDH, that he would have to rail against the usage of his favorite melt and pour soap from Mama Bear.
I was banned ten minutes later, "disinformation" can be caused by explaining information found on a vendors website.
Second time I was knocked off of their site, it was because I replied to a post by a guy who was curious about why when ever bullgoose shaving had stuff on sale, suddenly those products would suddenly go from being called "bad" to instantly being the greatest things around for shaving, by people who had spent the last 3 years complaining against those products.
I merely pointed out that at the same time, all posts and threads that were negative of those items on sale, instantly became deleted or locked down, or heavily edited.
The Shave Den
First time I was booted off, I disagreed with a moderator on the proper way to hold a razor. The genius felt you could only hold it one way, so after a frustrating period of having every thread and post I made disappear I was informed I had to have external links to information that proved what I said was true. As a result I was banned for "excessive promotion of external sites"
Second time, I saw a thread promoting a sharpologist article on the history of Gillette toggles. I said he was missing the more important ones that predate the adjustment feature, he had no idea about those, even the Gillette archive people didn't. SO I gave some good patent numbers.
Strangely I was banned for "rules violations". Ironically there is no rule against providing information.
Shave my Face,
I was banned because I have been working on designed an adjustable razor of my own. And the only moderator felt the site should only discuss vintage or current production items.
The Shaving Room
After 2000 posts and threads I was banned because I complained that people who disagreed with me on a subject were posting photographs of naked men, men masturbating on a couch, and a photo of 30 naked men going to the bathroom at the same time. Apparently that was appropriate content to post on a shaving forum, but asking in public, after no moderator response to private message, to take that crap down, was "violation of forum rules"
